This picture taken on June 30, 2026 shows a woman riding a bicycle past a white temporary fence surrounding the site of a data centre construction project in Hino, Tokyo prefecture. The explosion in resource-hungry data centres -- housing the hardware "brains" of artificial intelligence -- is fuelling unease worldwide, with New York State and Australia the latest jurisdictions to announce new rules. Japan, with some of the most densely populated cities among advanced economies -- 80 percent of the country is mountains -- has a particular problem: a shortage of suitable urban space to build the facilities. (Photo by Yuichi YAMAZAKI / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with 'JAPAN-TECHNOLOGY-AI-POLITICS,FOCUS' by Kyoko HASEGAWA.

This picture taken on June 30, 2026 shows a man riding bicycle past a white temporary fence surrounding the site of a data centre construction project in Hino, Tokyo prefecture. The explosion in resource-hungry data centres -- housing the hardware "brains" of artificial intelligence -- is fuelling unease worldwide, with New York State and Australia the latest jurisdictions to announce new rules. Japan, with some of the most densely populated cities among advanced economies -- 80 percent of the country is mountains -- has a particular problem: a shortage of suitable urban space to build the facilities. (Photo by Yuichi YAMAZAKI / AFP via Getty Images) / To go with 'JAPAN-TECHNOLOGY-AI-POLITICS,FOCUS' by Kyoko HASEGAWA.

US actress Sharon Stone (R) and Rome's Mayor Roberto Gualtieri (L) pose on the balcony of the Mayor's office as they admire the ancient Roman Forum at the Capitoline Hill in Rome on July 16, 2026, prior to attend a meeting of Global Nobel Laureates Assembly on Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear War. (Photo by TIZIANA FABI / AFP via Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

People buy items at a robot seller kiosk in Beijing on July 17, 2026. (Photo by ADEK BERRY / AFP via Getty Images)

People buy items at a robot seller kiosk in Beijing on July 17, 2026. (Photo by ADEK BERRY / AFP via Getty Images)

An automated robot seller gets ready to serve people at a robot kiosk in Beijing on July 17, 2026. (Photo by ADEK BERRY / AFP via Getty Images)

(FILES) Chinese and US flags wave outside a technology company in Beijing on April 17, 2025. President Donald Trump on July 16, 2026 accused China of compromising US election data, saying he would declassify intelligence on "shocking vulnerabilities" in the system -- and escalating years of baseless claims that his 2020 defeat was due to widespread fraud. (Photo by Pedro Pardo / AFP via Getty Images)

This screen grab from a SpaceX live webcast shows SpaceX's Starship rocket just as the launch from Starbase was aborted during the 13th test flight in South Padre Island, Texas, on July 16, 2026. SpaceX was set for a test launch of its powerful Starship rocket on July 16, the first since the company went public last month. The mammoth rocket was scheduled for blast off from the company's Starbase facility in southern Texas during a 90-minute window that opened at 5:45 pm local time (2245 GMT), before being aborted. This would have been Starship's 13th flight overall. (Photo by SPACEX / AFP via Getty Images) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / HANDOUT / SPACEX" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS